- The
Hildebrandslied (German: [ˈhɪldəbʁantsˌliːt]; Lay or Song of Hildebrand) is a
heroic lay
written in Old High
German alliterative verse. It is the...
- this period. The
author of the Jüngeres
Hildebrandslied obviously did not know the text of the 800s
Hildebrandslied; the
ballad is
rather the
result of a...
-
Hildebrand appears in many works, most
prominently in the Old High
German Hildebrandslied, the
Middle High
German Nibelungenlied, in the Old
Norse song "Hildebrand's...
-
English poems Widsith, Deor, and Waldere, the Old High
German poem
Hildebrandslied, and
possibly the Rök runestone. The bulk of the
legendary material...
- century,
chief among them
being the Muspilli,
Merseburg charms, and
Hildebrandslied, and
other religious texts (the Georgslied, Ludwigslied, Evangelienbuch...
-
survivals we have
today (less than 200
lines in
total between the
Hildebrandslied and the Muspilli).
Einhard tells how
Charlemagne himself ordered that...
-
great kingdom in
Italy for
Theodoric to exploit. The Old High
German Hildebrandslied mentions Odoacer (as Otacher) as the
person who
drove Hildebrand from...
- run
until about the mid-11th century; the most
famous works are the
Hildebrandslied and a
heroic epic
known as the Heliand.
Middle High
German starts in...
- tradition. The
ballad the Jüngeres
Hildebrandslied (c. 1450)
concerns the same
material as the
early medieval Hildebrandslied. Finally, a
number of
heroic texts...
-
their sons in
combat ("Rostam and Sohrab", a
motif also
found in the
Hildebrandslied), are
virtually invincible in combat, and are
murdered by treachery...
